As I write this I am on my way into Manchester to catch the train down to London to attend the Microsoft BizTalk Summit 2013. With speakers including members of the BizTalk product team and numerous Integration MVPs, I am hopeful that the day will prove to be worth the 5am alarm that woke me this morning!

Last year I started a new job with a logistics company in the North of England, where I was responsible for the management, design and development of IT Integration strategies, architectures and solutions using BizTalk Server 2009. This included the design and implementation of the BizTalk Server 2009 infrastructure, the definition of development standards, mentoring a fellow developer in the ways of BizTalk and migrating a number of existing solutions from Softshare over to BizTalk 2009. Unfortunately ......

Well, maybe. I have realised that I have many many ideas and notes for blogs entries dotted around my desk, along with a number of half completed entries that I have been meaning to get sorted and finished and posted. I am hoping that over the next couple of weeks I will be able to get some of these online, including my experineces installing BizTalk 2009 on two different types of environment, some useful utilities I have used and also some notes on issues that I have encountered recently and not ......

When I started this blog in September 2009 I was working as a BizTalk developer for a financial institution based in the South West of England. At the time I was developing using BizTalk Server 2004 and intended to use my blog to collate and share any useful information and experiences that I had using this version of BizTalk (and occasionally other technologies) in an effort to bring together as many useful details as I could in one place. Since then my circumstances have changed and I am no longer ......

This is my first attempt at writing a blog, so you may have to bare with me as I try to find both my feet and the time to get things started properly. My main reason for starting this blog is to keep a track of the useful articles, information and golden nuggets that I come across in my daily routine at work as BizTalk developer. Unfortunately we are currently stuck on BizTalk 2004, which as some of you may know is now three versions out of date. As such, many of the better BizTalk resources are ......